omega-minus particle

[ oh-mee-guh-mahy-nuhs, -mey-, oh-meg-uh- ]

nounPhysics.
  1. a baryon with strangeness −3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered. Symbol: Ω

Origin of omega-minus particle

1
First recorded in 1960–65

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